WORKSHOPS

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Forthcoming:

"Writing Your Memoir"

Ghost Ranch

Abiquiu, New Mexico

Weeklong: April 16 - 22

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Memoir Writing Workshops:

Thomas Larson has given two-hour, all-day, and weeklong workshops at bookstores, writing centers, libraries, writers' guilds, private groups, and universities for beginning and advanced memoirists throughout the United States.

From 2007 to 2011, venues include:

MFA Low-Residency (Ashland, OH);

The Writers' Workshoppe (Port Townsend, WA);

Warwick’s Bookstore (La Jolla, CA);

Ghost Ranch (Santa Fe, NM);

Ghost Ranch Fall Writing Festival (Abiquiu, NM);

St. Louis Writer’s Guild;

Lancaster (PA) Literary Guild;

Writers’ Center of Indiana (Indianapolis, IN);

Mobile Writers Guild (Mobile, AL);

Bookpeople (Austin, TX);

Houston (TX) Public Library;

Palm Springs (CA) Public Library;

Book Passage (Corte Madera, CA);

Margaret Mitchell House (Atlanta, GA);

OLLI Memoir Writers (Auburn, AL);

Clemente Program (Port Hadlock, WA);

Wordstock (Portland, OR);

Kansas City (MO) Public Library;

Columbia (MO) Public Library;

The Loft (Minneapolis, MN);

Worthington Library (Columbus, OH).

 

Prior Appearances (an example):

Lancaster Literary Guild

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Memoir Writing Workshops

Thomas Larson, renowned writer and memoir facilitator, is available for daylong, weekend, and weeklong workshops. He has taught beginning to advanced classes at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, MN, Ghost Ranch in Santa Fe and Abiquiu, NM, and Ashland University's Low-Residency MFA program, among dozens of venues. He works one-on-one with participants, often reading and editing manuscripts. The announcement below describes his basic workshop and can be used for advertising or promotion.

Join Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, for a workshop in memoir writing. We begin by discussing the significant differences between traditional autobiography and contemporary memoir. Next we explore memoir’s demanding questions: Where do I begin? What is my focus? How do I discover the emotional truth of my story? How do I write about the living? With numerous writing prompts, we look at the mainstays of the memoir form: truth-telling and self-disclosure; sudden versus long-ago memoir; good and bad therapeutic writing; and the importance of metaphor and myth in the personal life.

What is a memoir?

A memoir is a story that focuses on the meaning and intensity of a singular relationship in the author’s life—unresolved feelings for a parent, a child, a sibling, a friend; coming to terms with a loss, an illness, a death; remembering a significant phase like childhood or adolescence or a period like college in which the writer was challenged or changed.

  • Author photo, book cover, posters, and postcards are available upon request.
  • Venues must include desks or tables that accommodate participants.

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price: $100 per hour

typically I sell my book (PB: $15)

REFERENCES:

Brian Malloy, Education Director (612-215-2578), The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Anita Skeen, Director, Fall Writing Festival, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Judy Reeves, former Director of San Diego Writers' Cooperative (The Ink Spot), 619-284-1343: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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